TY - JOUR
T1 - MID1 mutation screening in a large cohort of Opitz G/BBB syndrome patients
T2 - twenty-nine novel mutations identified.
AU - Ferrentino, Rosa
AU - Bassi, Maria Teresa
AU - Chitayat, David
AU - Tabolacci, Elisabetta
AU - Meroni, Germana
PY - 2007/2
Y1 - 2007/2
N2 - Opitz G/BBB Syndrome (OS) is a multiple congenital anomaly disorder characterized by defects along the body midline. The disease is characterized by variable expressivity of signs that include hypertelorism, cleft lip and/or palate, laryngo-tracheo-esophageal abnormalities, cardiac defects, and hypospadias. OS patients also present with mental retardation and brain anatomical abnormalities. An autosomal dominant form mapping to chromosome 22 and an X-linked form of OS are known. The gene responsible for the X-linked form of OS, MID1, codes for a member of the Tripartite Motif family of E3 ubiquitin ligases. Here we report 29 novel mutations in 29 unrelated patients of a cohort of 140 male OS cases. These mutations are found in both familial and sporadic cases. They are scattered along the entire length of the gene and are represented by missense and nonsense mutations, insertions and deletions causing frame shift mutations, and deletion of either single exons or the entire gene. The variety of the mutations found confirms that loss-of-function is the mechanism underlying the OS phenotype. Moreover, the low percentage of MID1-mutated OS patients, 47% of the familial and 13% of the sporadic cases, suggests a wider genetic heterogeneity underlying the OS phenotype. (c) 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
AB - Opitz G/BBB Syndrome (OS) is a multiple congenital anomaly disorder characterized by defects along the body midline. The disease is characterized by variable expressivity of signs that include hypertelorism, cleft lip and/or palate, laryngo-tracheo-esophageal abnormalities, cardiac defects, and hypospadias. OS patients also present with mental retardation and brain anatomical abnormalities. An autosomal dominant form mapping to chromosome 22 and an X-linked form of OS are known. The gene responsible for the X-linked form of OS, MID1, codes for a member of the Tripartite Motif family of E3 ubiquitin ligases. Here we report 29 novel mutations in 29 unrelated patients of a cohort of 140 male OS cases. These mutations are found in both familial and sporadic cases. They are scattered along the entire length of the gene and are represented by missense and nonsense mutations, insertions and deletions causing frame shift mutations, and deletion of either single exons or the entire gene. The variety of the mutations found confirms that loss-of-function is the mechanism underlying the OS phenotype. Moreover, the low percentage of MID1-mutated OS patients, 47% of the familial and 13% of the sporadic cases, suggests a wider genetic heterogeneity underlying the OS phenotype. (c) 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 17221865
AN - SCOPUS:33847715562
VL - 28
SP - 206
EP - 207
JO - Human Mutation
JF - Human Mutation
SN - 1059-7794
IS - 2
ER -